Welcome to the 1000-Word Classics website. We hope you enjoy these summaries, each one concisely “boiled down” to exactly 1,000 words.

We kindly ask that you please let all your friends and family members know about our site as well, so they too can enjoy it.

So far, we’ve completed 11 different 1,000-word classic summaries and you can be sure, we’ll be adding many more on a regular basis.

For now, simply click on any of these titles to read that particular summary.

• A Christmas Carol
• Crime And Punishment
• Dracula
• In Cold Blood
• Les Misérables
• Love Story
• Pride And Prejudice
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Great Gatsby
• The Old Man And The Sea
• To Kill A Mockingbird